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So where are the white hot flames, shattered windows and incinerated bodies that prove such an incredibly hot fire took place?
Umm, I coulda swore those were some pretty hot flames coming out of the buiding after impact. But maybe only I saw them.
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Overlooking the fact the WTC was built with steel - not iron - the structural steel used was rated at 2000F for several hours.
Yet the building failed in less than half that time under avg. temperatures that weren't even 50% that. According the NIST report.
Do you really think I don't know the difference between steel and Iron?
Maybe the larger and thicker members were rated that high. Sure as hell not those joists. You're only as strong as your weakest point. Again.
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Further, the NIST test of WTC trusses exposed to 500C temps showed a 0% failure rate:
"All four test specimens sustained the maximum design load for approximately 2 hours without collapsing.â
hmmmmm..........
I love when scientists put "test specimens" together after the fact. When were those towers built? Did they build a mock-up and ram a jet at 500 MPH through them? I doubt it. Experiments were probably conducted in a sterile lab with severe limitations.
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Even stranger, actual samples collected by the NIST confirmed neither the perimeter walls or columns in the effected floors experienced temperatures exceeding 250C.
Boy, those fires were a real raging inferno!!
Neither the walls nor the columns are the culprit. The joists were.
Quote from achilles28:
Not according to the engineers who actually designed and built the towers to withstand such a calamity.
But I guess your opinion is far more valid when it comes to the ultimate resilience of the Towers, than opinions of those who actually built it.
LOL.
No, I just know first hand what happens to loads when subjected to out-of-chart tolerances. I've lost comerades and my best friend lost his father in building and floor collapses in LA and San Diego.
And let's get one thing straight, ironworkers build highrises. Not engineers or architects.
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Too bad even IF that happened, you'd be left with the Towers wide, cross-braced steel core jutting a few hundred meters into the air.
Or, should we assume those weak-ass truss connectors that were apparently to blame for the collapsing floors, showed incredible strength on the opposite side by tearing down and SHREDDING the huge, cross-braced inner core - at the speed of gravity no less.
Sure. Sure.
If you had bothered to view the video collapse without bias, you would've noticed the core remained standing for a bit after the floors came down around it by about approx 4-5 floors, and followed that pattern all the way down.
The joisted floors act as a diaphram in tying everything together. The core had no support once the floors went. Laterally or vertically.
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To 'pull' also means to pull my pud or yank my wanker.
In this context, 'pull' means to demo a building.
Firefighter friend on the first floor of my building confirmed the term. To pull could also mean to pull your head out of your ass and quit acting like you know something about which you know nothing about except from websites.
What a bunch of conspiracy nuts we have here.